Guessing Quotes

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

I feel confident that it will always keep everybody guessing, and yet not in that weird, maddening way where it's like, "Oh, come on, guys!" I think you will be freaked out by the end. I really do. I don't think you'll see it coming at all.